All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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